Reference

What do we mean by reference?

The act of referring to something. noun

Significance for a specified matter; relation or relationship. noun

Meaning or denotation. noun

A mention of an occurrence or situation. noun

A note in a publication referring the reader to another passage or source. noun

The passage or source so referred to. noun

A work frequently used as a source. noun

A mark or footnote used to direct a reader elsewhere for additional information. noun

Submission of a case to a referee. noun

Legal proceedings conducted before or by a referee. noun

A person who is in a position to recommend another or to vouch for his or her fitness, as for a job. noun

A statement about a person's qualifications, character, and dependability. noun

To supply references to. transitive verb

To mention in a reference; refer to. transitive verb

(in/with) In connection with; in relation to. idiom

The act of referring. noun

A relationship or relation (to something).

A measurement one can compare to.

Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.

A person who provides this information; a referee.

A reference work.

That which serves as a reference work.

The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.

A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.

(academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.

(academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.

An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.

(character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.

Appeal.

A reference is like, Say you're having a conversation and you make a joke about like santa claus That's referencing santa Urban Dictionary

When someone says something relatable or relevant and you wanna “reference” it. Urban Dictionary

A misspelling of referrer used in internet lingo deliberately. It came about because when one web page links (or refers) to another, it tells the second web page who the REFERer was. Urban Dictionary

REFER: An abbreviated term used to identify the common-place, everyday, plain old "refrigerator". Urban Dictionary

V. 1. to direct to a source 2. Often the misspelled form of "reefer" in online chats. Urban Dictionary

When an individual makes an attempt to hipe up there linguistic intelligence around others to camouflage the fact that they haven't a breeze what there talking about. Also when an attempt is made to point out the blatantly obvious. Like a jackass highlighting a paragraph right in front of the person reading it. Urban Dictionary

Ctrl+c ctrl+v Urban Dictionary

Oh, so you got the reference. Somebody must have explained it to you. Urban Dictionary

A reference to Hirohiko Araki's long running manga (and anime) series Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Usually pertaining to things simular to or referencing Jojo's Bizarre Adventure themes such as floating or exploding Kanji, posing that covers the face and aesthetic of both the show and manga. Urban Dictionary

Increasingly used on the internet, the phrase "Is that a JoJo reference?!" refers to the anime JoJo's Bizzare Adventure. Since the anime is used in a lot of memes, when people spot something related to JoJo in a meme they tend to ask if it is a JoJo reference. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to reference:
reference, deference, reverence, preference, referente, inference, referee, referent, references, referenced, referenda, referents, dereference, ference, deterence, coreference, refluence, efference, referencer, recedence, reverance, referencia.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word reference:
frame, references, dictionary, object, implementation, phrase, library, manual, libraries.

Words that rhyme with reference:
deference, preference.

Adjectives that are often used to describe reference:
special, particular, specific, future, direct, further, brief, explicit, cross, only, quick, frequent, constant, ready, easy, especial, earliest, clear, standard, original, useful, historical, occasional, obvious, immediate, convenient, external, oblique, self, indirect, objective, excellent, earlier, casual, definite, implicit, biblical, vague, mere, slightest, handy, detailed, visual, symbolic, valuable, temporal, continual, essential, apparent, comprehensive, distinct, exclusive, incidental, veiled, exact, switch, anaphoric, sole.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective reference:
handbook, library, reading, aim, group, cycle, association, department, book, books, box, notes, material, matter, service, number, point, chapter, list, work, information, manual, marks, based, map, dependent, pilot, frame, society, plane, room, price, librarian, beam, junction, section, notation, checking, feature, collection, range, electrode, catalogue, bur, line, minutes, glasstone, source, unit, shelf, icon, tables, substance, sources, tracking, faa, literature, icons, research, model, archives, bits, related, sees, type, division, standard, salmon, manager, counting, object, window, nad, novelists, series, calendar, institute, diagrams, services, aids, set, journal, pagan, commission, regulation, academy, aaa, centre, bar, voltage, wave, free.

Words that sound like reference:
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